Police: Woman assaulted on Swamp Rabbit Trail, suspect on loose

Greenville police are looking for a man who they say assaulted a woman Thursday morning.

Police said the man pushed her down and struck her a couple of times. She was able to fend him off, before he fled on a dark-colored bicycle.

Police said the woman was assaulted at about 11:30 a.m. on the trail between the YMCA and Cleveland Park. The woman said the man rode off toward Faris Road.

On the police department's Facebook page, the man is described as white, in his late teens or early 20s, about 5 feet 10 inches tall with a slim build, dark hair and eyes. He was wearing a tan shirt and black pants.

Anyone with any information is asked to call the Greenville Police Department Tip Line at 864-271-GCPD (4273) or Greenville Crime Stoppers at 864-23-CRIME.

This is one of three violent crimes Greenville County law enforcement has responded to on the trail in the last month.

On Aug. 20, two cyclists said they were shot at while riding on the trail in the area of West Blue Ridge Drive and Sulphur Springs Road. On Aug. 12, deputies said they found a man shot to death in a wooded area along side the trail near West Blue Ridge Drive.

"When the stuff happened over on the other side of town on the trail, I thought, 'Well that's kind of an isolated area where there is not a lot of traffic,' but here, there is so much traffic constantly," said trail user Kristen Hill.

Greenville police will be presenting a proposal to city council on Monday asking for more police presence in several areas of the city, including the Swamp Rabbit Trail.

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